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Two major proposed acquisitions of health care insurance companies raise serious challenges for Connecticut. The question is, How many jobs will leave or come into the state? In both cases — that of Aetna acquiring Humana and Anthem acquiring Cigna — the threat is that jobs are more likely to leave than to stay. Keeping jobs in Connecticut means anchoring the companies here by providing the supports that make them competitive, as has been done with ESPN (world-class digital studios), United Technologies Corp. (world-class research campus, now under construction) and bioscience (with Jackson Labs as the anchor). But anchoring insurance companies — they do not rely on...

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